Re: Old Norse (was Re: New to the list)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 19, 2000, 14:34 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> > One of those things I don't really understand how they
> > could happen (as well as the overuse of the /-s/ morphophoneme).
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> What "overuse" are you referring to?
Presumably the fact that it is overloaded to mean the plural of nouns
and the 3sg of verbs.
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